Friday 17 October 2014

I Had Always Thought That Waves Were Totally Random,

until I saw this picture,


my next thought, Photoshopped, but it was not, what is happening here is that it is a picture of a cross sea, it is a sea state with two wave systems travelling at oblique angles, this may occur when water waves from one weather system continue despite a shift in wind, waves generated by the new wind run at an angle to the old, creating a shifting, dangerous pattern, until the older waves have dissipated, they create a sea hazard among the most perilous, this picture was taken at the tip of Île de Ré, it is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait, how amazing that the waves should make such geometric patterns.


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